Elaine

9.3

Amazing- great full body and tasty — 6 years ago

David J. H. Ruiz

10

6/27/2020: JD Tasting — 6 years ago

B Williams

9.2

Excellent Malbec. Had at Linger Restaurant in Denver, CO. Would buy if I could find it in Alabama. Unfortunately cannot. — 7 years ago

Gavin Baum

9.3

Third time trying this. Tightly coiled and reminiscent of young Meursault on popping the cork, with a certain reductive flintiness to its wonderfully pure Jonagold apple fruit. After being open for a couple days the wine is altogether more expressive, with creme brulee, almond, and bread dough aromas complementing its still vibrant core of orchard fruit and minerality. Strikingly rich and sumptuous for its relatively modest alcohol and lip-smacking acid structure. Given how positively it evolved and unfurled with a few days worth of oxygen, I'd lay this down for at least a couple years. Hats off. — 7 years ago

Narun P

9.0

58% CS, 33% M, 6% PV, 3% CF
Slightly bricked garnet red, compact rim, more red than purple.

Pretty bouquet - red cherry, dried herbal aromas, leather, tobacco, mineral.

The palate is harmonious. Integrated tannin, med plus acidity, dry, medium bodied. Showing a lot of red fruit character, animalistic, floral. Very classic Margaux-esque character.

This wine is at the perfect drinking spot. No need at all to wait. After a solid month of full bodied, extracted Napa Cab, this is a welcome reprieve! 90. — 9 years ago

Stanislav Lobanov

9.1

(17/20) Янтарный цвет. В аромате курага, изюм, морёное дерево, йогурт. Высокая кислотность. Долгое карамельное послевкусие. — 10 years ago

Benjamin

9.0

Full bodied, Nice honey smell that follows in mouth, sweet ripe white fruit as we could expect of that kind of dessert wine. Long lasting, full of promises and rich but will be better in a few more years. — 11 years ago

Jamey Adams

9.8

Delicious!! — 11 years ago

Reilly Brock

10

Beautiful. — 12 years ago

Ryan Reeves

8.9

Wonderful Italian blend with great friends. — 12 years ago

S.R.Alexander

9.2

Deep deep wine, and a little hot for me — 6 years ago

Marc Melser

9.5

We had the 2007 Vintage on 6/14/20. A bouquet of dark fruit and mocha. Blackberry, black cherry, mocha and the Rutherford dust on the palate. A smooth finish to a full bodied, New World wine. Still great despite a dried cork. — 6 years ago

Joyce Brooks

9.5

Dependable good taste! $13 H-E-B — 7 years ago

Nichole Herman

10

Nichole really enjoyed this one! — 8 years ago

Alishia Odom

9.0

Alishia had this 8 years ago

K Zuk

9.5

Old school abv of 13% and can go another 20 years no problem — 10 years ago

Jennifer Long

9.0

Sweet like me because I am also Hungarian. — 10 years ago

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Lee Pitofsky

9.3

Paired with Chocolate Soufflé — 11 years ago

Grant Henry

9.6

Should I have waited? Yes? No? It was the last one of my 6 pack of this vintage. We drank one per year since '09. Happy anniversary to us! — 11 years ago

Michael Siciliano

9.6

Canadian Juice — 12 years ago

Jamie Durfee

9.4

Note the bottle is the 2018 Pinot which was not found in the system here yet.
All their wines are the bomb diggity! — 6 years ago

Cameron Jones

8.9

Nice Smooth fruit forward little tart. — 6 years ago

Michael Hildebrand

9.6

Seriously delicious. The most memorable cab franc I have had. — 7 years ago

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9.7

The 1990 Cristal is remarkable. Polished, nuanced and light on its feet, the 1990 is all class. Citrus, orchard fruit and floral notes are wonderfully lifted throughout. A slight reductive note adds character on the finely knit finish. I can’t think of a better way to start this tasting. Simply put, the 1990 is a total rock star. Moreover, it is much more delicate than most wines from this ripe vintage. Amazingly, the 1990 tastes like it is still not ready! “Nineteen ninety was my second vintage here,” says Chef de Caves Jean-Baptiste Lécaillon. “It was ideal. The fruit was just perfect. We blocked the malolactic fermentation completely and only fermented 6-7% of our lots in oak, as opposed to the more typical 20%, in order to preserve as much freshness as possible. The wine was made by my predecessor, Michel Pansu, but I was learning. This was the first year I started working with oxygen by reducing sulfites in vinification to pre-oxidize the Chardonnay musts, as I do know, which allows me to get rid of all the unstable, oxidative compounds. With Pinot, on the other hand, you need a little bit of sulfur at crush or you lose the brilliant fruit. (Antonio Galloni, Vinous, December 2018) — 8 years ago

Patricia Schnitzer

9.2

Feb 11,2017. Dinner w/ J2 and Jack D. Lovely Tuscan blend. Nicely balanced. — 9 years ago

Michael Storey

10

Medium body, medium dark, medium malt, light yeast, light hop - perfect balance — 10 years ago

Carlos Chiti

9.3

18/AGO/2015 — 11 years ago

Jessica Garcia

10

Having lunch with Greg Lambrecht, creator or Coravin system, for a baseline tasting. Will revisit in 6 months. This wine was just for drinking though. :) — 11 years ago

Craig Warn

9.7

Gift from Amy Jo for birthday. — 12 years ago

Adolf Kristjansson

9.1

Smooth, 6 years, Spanish with smooth aftertaste. — 14 years ago